Re: problems with long URLs in PDFs

2010-04-21 Thread Jakob Fix
Shlomo, that's a very nice explanation of our problem, thank you! Also, in this context, your recommendations make perfect sense. Does MicroType or another software developper possibly propose a tool/plugin that can automate the hypertext link creation part based on an element in our structured F

Re: problems with long URLs in PDFs

2010-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
Jakob, > co-workers of mine have trouble with some long URLs that break over > lines and some may also contain "special" characters such as question > marks or parentheses. Please note that we're using Acrobat to create > the PDF and that the Generate Tagged PDF option is selected (as > document

Re: problems with long URLs in PDFs

2010-04-20 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi Lief, all, thanks for your reply. We know we can do this, but that's manual, isn't it, and we're looking for ways to automate this as much as possible. I should probably have mentioned that we're using structured FrameMaker, and we have an element called hyperlink that, similar to DocBook, has

RE: problems with long URLs in PDFs

2010-04-20 Thread Lief Erickson
Hi Jakob-- When you add the URL in FrameMaker are you then adding a "Go to URL" Hypertext marker through Special > Hypertext > Go to URL? If you do that, then apply a character tag to the text, the link should work, even if it breaks across lines because it is the character tag that becomes the